Posted by: jseah
« on: December 17, 2012, 10:16:52 AM »For reference, my 'standard' setup about 10 years into a game (1 billion starting pop) consists of a 6 slip shipyard at 6kton for the missile ships and a bunch of 1 slip yards for the specialists. Most of the time, I maintain a pretty large fleet (easy enough when it's just 6ktons per ship, you chuck them out bit by bit and before you know it...) so I tend to have around the same tonnage as the opposition.
Since I go with the Missile Massacre school of thought, the 6kton ships pack 33% size reduction launchers for offense, usually size 4; with a two-stage missile (size 1 bus, size 3 warhead) built for speed to penetrate PD. I don't always use a full salvo, especially if I am just testing their missile defences or it turns out I brought too many ships (usually the case).
Since I go with the Missile Massacre school of thought, the 6kton ships pack 33% size reduction launchers for offense, usually size 4; with a two-stage missile (size 1 bus, size 3 warhead) built for speed to penetrate PD. I don't always use a full salvo, especially if I am just testing their missile defences or it turns out I brought too many ships (usually the case).